1. the act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.
2. skill in managing; executive ability: great management and tact.
* The following names represent only a partial listing of available speakers.
Ken Blanchard
Few people have impacted the day-to-day management of people and companies as has Ken Blanchard. A gregarious, sought-after and prominent author, speaker and business consultant, he is universally characterized by friends, colleagues and clients as one of the most insightful, powerful and compassionate men in business today. A multitude of Fortune 500 companies and fast-growing entrepreneurial enterprises have benefited from his unique approach to managing people.
Gary Bradt
Gary Bradt is a change and leadership speaker and author who helps organizations turn every change into opportunity. Gary’s twenty-two years of experience in the leadership field makes him uniquely qualified to deliver on this message. He is a clinical psychologist, business owner, leadership consultant, husband and father who has learned to cope with one of the toughest challenges of all, a child’s chronic, life-threatening illness. He has spoken all over the globe for clients like General Electric, American Express, eBay, FedEx, and Fidelity Investments, to name just a few.
Todd Bucholz
Todd Buchholz "lights up economics with a wickedly sparkling wit," says the Associated Press. He recently jousted with James Carville and Ben Stein, and Successful Meetings Magazine named him one of the "21 Top Speakers for the 21st Century." His editorials in the Wall Street Journal correctly forecast the 2001 slowdown in the U.S., and the New York Times has turned to him to decipher terrorist threats and the job market. BusinessWeek raved about his book Market Shock., which warned of the quicksand facing the stock market.
Marcus Buckingham
Marcus Buckingham is the Global Practice Leader for The Gallup Organization's Strengths Management practice. He was graduated from Cambridge University in 1987, with a master's degree in social and political science. For the last 15 years he has helped his clients find, focus and develop the most talented employees. He is the co-author of Gallup's book on great managers. First. Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently (Simon and Schuster).
Ram Charan
Ram Charan is a highly sought after business advisor, educator, and author. He has worked for many years with some of the world's most successful CEOs, including Jack Welch of GE and Edgar Woolard of Dupont.
Ram is known for his practical, real world insights. He started his
business career as a teenager working in the family shoe shop in India, went on
to earn an engineering degree, and then MBA and doctorate degrees from Harvard
Business School.
Chester Elton
Called the "apostle of appreciation," by the Globe and Mail, Canada's largest newspaper, and "creative and refreshing" by the New York Times, Chester Elton is co-author of several successful leadership books and is an in-demand speaker the world over. Elton’s books have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over half a million copies worldwide. The Carrot Principle by Simon & Schuster has been a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, and The 24-Carrot Manager has been called a “must read for modern-day managers” by Larry King of CNN.
Steve Farber
Steve Farber joined the Tom Peters Company in 1994 as their first full-time staff consultant. He quickly became their most requested consultant and speaker and was given the title of Vice President and Official Mouthpiece (that's what it said on his business card). Steve left TPC in November of 2000 to establish his own practice, and in June of 2001 in recognition of his contributions to the culture, growth and intellectual capital of the firm he was honored with the designation of Tom Peters Company Fellow.
Keith Ferrazzi
Keith Ferrazzi is one of the rare individuals to discover the essential formula for making his way to the top through a powerful, balanced combination of marketing acumen and networking savvy. Both Forbes and Inc Magazines have designated him one of the world's most "connected" individuals. Now, as Founder & CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, he provides market leaders with advanced strategic consulting and training services to increase company sales, and enhance personal careers.
Ted Fishman
Ted C. Fishman's bestselling book China, Inc., How the Rise of
the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World, has helped describe for
the world the effects of China's momentous change on the lives and businesses of
people everywhere. In addition to its success in America, the book, translated
and published in 26 languages, is an international bestseller. There are
Chinese editions in both The People's Republic and Taiwan, where the book has
gained an enthusiastic following.
James Gilmore
James H. Gilmore is cofounder of Aurora, Ohio-based Strategic Horizons LLP, a thinking studio dedicated to helping businesses conceive and design new ways of adding value to their economic offerings. He is co-author of The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999). The book shows how businesses can create value by embracing theatre as an operating model to stage unique experiences that, ultimately, transform those who participate in them.
David Goldsmith
David Goldsmith is President and co-founder of MetaMatrix Consulting Group LLC. Over the past 20 years David has founded or co-founded nine businesses ranging from distribution to manufacturing to advertising. In 1999, David sold his 14-year-old Syracuse, NY based Image Promoters, Inc. which he co-founded in 1986 to Proforma Associates, a 400-location franchise. He has been a consultant to various industries including telemarketing, high tech, logistics, retailing, hospitality, tourism, and manufacturing.
Carol Kinsey Goman
Carol Kinsey Goman is the president of Kinsey Consulting Services, a firm that specializes in developing "change-adept" organizations, whose clients include over 90 organizations in 16 countries. As a speaker, Carol presents keynote addresses and workshops for management conferences and major trade association conventions. As an executive coach, she works with senior managers on ways to become more effective leaders of change.
Adrian Gostick
Adrian Gostick is the author of several successful books on employee engagement and retention. The Carrot Principle by Simon & Schuster has been a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, and The 24-Carrot Manager has been called a “must read for modern-day managers” by Larry King of CNN. In 2006, The Invisible Employee, from John Wiley & Sons also made the New York Times Best-seller list.
Peter Guber
Peter Guber has been a force in the entertainment industry for over thirty years. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts, Master of Law and Juris Doctorate degrees and admission to the New York and California Bars, he was recruited by Columbia Pictures in 1968 while pursuing an MBA degree at New York University’s Graduate School of Business. Within three years, he became Studio Chief, and during his tenure at the creative helm, Columbia surged to record-breaking profits on the strength of such critically acclaimed box office hits as Shampoo, The Last Detail, and Tommy.
Richard Hadden
Richard Hadden is a Certified Speaking Professional with a focus on Employee Relations and Creating a Great Place to Work. He is the co-author of Contented Cows Give Better Milk: The Plain Truth About Employee Relations and Your Bottom Line. Richard Hadden was a manager for a large savings and loan association in the 1980’s. He learned computer programming and worked as a programmer and systems analyst in the field of multi-user microcomputer software, before the advent of PC’s.
Gary Hamel
The ECONOMIST calls Hamel "the world's" reigning strategy guru. Hamel's landmark books, Leading the Revolution and Competing for the Future, have appeared on every management bestseller list and have been translated into more than 20 languages. The Journal of Business Strategy recently listed Hamel as one of the 20th century's 25 most influential business thinkers, along with business pioneers such as Henry Ford and Bill Gates.
Laurence Haughton
Laurence Haughton is one fast thinker, a fact he proved when he redefined speed as a competitive tool for business in his New York Times/Wall Street Journal best seller, It’s not the big that eat the small…It’s the FAST that eat the slow.
Now Haughton is doing the same for follow-through in It’s Not What You Say... It’s What You Do – How Following Through at Every Level Can Make or Break Your Company.
Mike Hourigan
Mike Hourigan, CSP, is known as the workplace commentator
for the satirical, real-world wisdom he brings to corporate and association
audiences. His original material draws from his international education,
early blue-collar jobs, and executive positions with Cargill Incorporated and
Olympus Corporation. These well-rounded experiences produce high-energy
messages that captivate his listeners and provide Mike with an uncanny ability
to plug into individual situations while relating with understanding and humor.
Jason Jennings
Jason Jennings has spent twenty years founding and leading successful businesses and teaching other companies how to achieve their full economic potential.
He was the youngest radio station group owner in the nation and his unique and legendary programming and sales strategies are credited with revolutionizing many parts of the broadcasting industry. Later, he founded Jennings-McGlothlin & Company, a consulting firm that became the largest media consultancy in the world.
John Kotter
John P. Kotter is internationally known and widely regarded as the foremost speaker on the topics of Leadership and Change. His is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually achieve successful transformations. The Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and a graduate of MIT and Harvard, Kotter’s vast experience and knowledge on successful change and leadership have been proven time and again.
Steven S. Little
Steven S. Little is a much sought after speaker, consultant and writer on the subject of business growth and the future of opportunity. As a Senior Consultant for Inc. Magazine since 1998, he speaks to thousands of owners and managers of growing businesses each year. He is the author of the new best-selling book The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Small Business Growth (Wiley) which is now in its fourth printing.
Frank Maguire
Frank Maguire is President of Hearth Communications Group, a global consulting firm in the field of marketing and employee/customer relations, based in Westlake Village CA. He is one of corporate America's most knowledgeable authorities on quality, productivity and communications. As the Senior Vice President of Industrial Relations of Federal Express, Frank is acknowledged as creator of the personnel, communications and employee relations programs that made the company the multi-billion dollar success story.
Cam Marston
Consultant, author, and speaker Cam Marston has worked with Fortune 500 companies and small businesses throughout the world to improve multigenerational relations and communications. He has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, New Zealand Herald, Entrepreneur Magazine, Charlotte Observer, HR Management Today, Money Magazine, Fortune Small Business (FSB), on the BBC, and in and numerous trade journals and city business journals across the United States.
Chuck Martin
Chuck Martin is a New York Times business best-selling author, noted researcher, speaker and business strategist. Martin offers invaluable context and pragmatic solutions to the problems leaders at all levels face today, helping them refocus on effective leadership, management, team building, and matching people with the best job. He is the author of seven business books, including most recently, SMARTS (Are We Hardwired for Success?) AMACOM/American Management Association.
Keith Mathis
Over the last several years, Dr. Keith Mathis has emerged as one of the most effective business trainers in the field. Progressive companies demand his provocative, informative, humorous presentations on a variety of organizational development topics. An animated and often electrifying platform speaker, Keith never merely talks to an audience, he also seeks to involve them in his presentations through high content and numerous illustrations. Intellectually demanding of himself, Keith demands no less of his audiences!
William (Gus) Pagonis
When it comes to expertise in logistics and overall leadership in management of very complex projects and organizations, few people are better qualified than Gus Pagonis, a retired three-star U.S. Army General. Lieutenant General Pagonis is widely recognized for his logistical achievements particularly during Desert Shield/Storm. After successfully masterminding logistics for the Gulf War and winning high praise from General Norman Schwarzkopf, Pagonis left the Army in 1993 and was elected Executive Vice President of Logistics for Sears Roebuck & Co.
Ian Percy
To go deep, you have to come from the deep. Ian Percy is a man who has searched his soul and now takes his satisfaction in prodding major corporations and public institutions into a reassessment of their individual and corporate spirituality. The human spirit, he contends, is today's frontier for any organization intent on success. Many people talk about change, leadership, teamwork, motivation, etc ... but not like Ian does. With limitless humor, he encourages, provokes, guides, coaches and lifts organizations to a place filled with purpose and passion.
Jon Picoult
Jon’s specialty is in helping organizations better understand, interact with, and impress their customers. He is the founder of Watermark Consulting, a firm that helps businesses improve their customer loyalty and staff engagement by creating distinctive and efficient interactions with consumers, employees and other key stakeholders. His insights on maximizing organizational performance have been featured in leading print and online publications, including The New York Times, Forbes, National Underwriter and Workforce Management.
Fred Reichheld
Fred Reichheld is a director emeritus of Bain & Company and a Bain Fellow. He is the founder of the firm's Loyalty Practice. His pioneering work in the area of customer, employee and investor retention has quantified the linkage between value, loyalty and profits. This work forms the conceptual foundation for the Loyalty Practice (unique among the major consulting firms), which helps clients to achieve superior results through improvements in customer, employee and investor loyalty.
Michael Treacy
Michael Treacy is the Chief Strategist and Co-Chairman of Gen3 Partners. Gen3 creates, architects, and builds and launches B2B, Internet-enabled businesses for companies seeking to establish and distinguish themselves in the New Economy. Fusing strategy, technology and entrepreneurship, Gen3 provides a total solution for companies facing the "permanent change and relentless challenge" the Internet represents.
Edie Weiner
Edie Weiner is president of Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc., a leading futurist consulting group in the United States. Formed in 1977, WEB has served over 300 clients (corporate, academic, government) in identifying opportunities in the areas of marketing, product development, strategic planning, investments, human resources, public affairs and advertising. Clients have ranged from the U.S. Congress to many of the Fortune 500.
Richard Whiteley
Vice chairman and cofounder of The Forum Corporation, an international training and consulting firm specializing in helping organizations become customer centered. Under Mr. Whiteley's direction, The Forum Corporation has introduced leadership, sales and customer focus training programs that are among the most widely used in business today. He has also been central to the growth of Forum's consulting services designed to help clients mobilize their organizations to effectively exercise their strategy.
